How Do I Get Close chords by Ray Davies

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Verse 1
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How do I get close, just as a matter of interest,
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was like the first take of a backtrack.
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We laid everything down with a click track
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and I started working with machines.
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I  kind of gave up because we got a really good band,
good rhythm section.
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And I just said, on tape, before the track starts,
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I said to the band,
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You know the chords guys.
This is probably gonna be our
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American first single
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one two three four blap and
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we went in did the backtrack first
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take and
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The only thing we had to overdub other
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than my vo cal was
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Dave's guitar solo
Which I think you know his more melodic
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guitar playing is my favorite
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And   he's got that fine mixture of
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like heavy and melodic stuff on this track
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Like a lost -and -found type of yeah,
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and all the sort of structured stuff in a sense
Even you really got
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me was structured solo  from
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So basically everybody knew what they were going for the dynamics
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were there and everybody put the track down at the same time
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And the only overdub was
Dave and all I had to say was
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one two one two three black